Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Cloud Computing
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IT’s Not Easy Being Green (Actually, It Is Easy If You Try)
In the interview, I pointed out that the most obvious way to reduce computing-related energy consumption is simply to power down and turn off those systems not being used – QED. However, that is insufficient alone. After all, one presumably wants to do some computing. Thus, systems and infrastructure must be designed for energy and…
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Microsoft Extreme Computing Group (XCG)
The Extreme Computing Group (XCG) at Microsoft was formed to develop radical new approaches to ultrascale and high-performance computing hardware and software. The group’s research activities include work in computer security, cryptography, operating system design, parallel programming models, cloud software, data center architectures, specialty hardware accelerators and quantum computing.
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Nothing Left But the Smile …
Like the Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, it seems increasingly clear that in the high-performance, low latency interconnection network space, we will be left with nothing but the smile. Simply put, the last remaining non-commodity component of HPC clusters – the high-performance interconnect – is in grave danger, due to the global economic…
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Scientific Clouds: Blowin’ in the Wind
Cirrus, stratus, altostratus, cumulus: they are the scientific names of the common clouds. They drift across the sky, reflecting the changing wind and weather. A new front is blowing into computational science, and cloud computing will soon advance scientific and engineering discovery.
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Seeding The Clouds Redux
Update: We’ve been getting a bit of press, including stories in the NY Times and EE Times. Jim Larus also shows off our low power test vehicle in a brief video.
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Seeding The Clouds
I came to Microsoft to lead a new research initiative in cloud computing, one that complements our production data center infrastructure and our nascent Azure cloud software platform. You can read the press release and the web site for the official story. What follows is my personal perspective.